4-4 Parkour

Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Rollin' on the highway like a rocket, got a head to shoot down.
Can't stop it with the wheel in my hand as I stand on the floor of the boat of this car on the road.
Got this woman in the back seat, she my wifey in the middle of the livery.
Man, she saved me till this day I don't know why.
She picked me up when I was down on the road.

Mike Snow: We sort of try stick true to David Belle's definition and description of what real parkour is.
He does it for himself and that's what he has tried to pass on with his method.

The association started back in 2005 or 2006.
So they started running classes in Melbourne and found some other people in Sydney and Adelaide and Brisbane and then all around Australia bit by bit started to piece together a real national body for teaching and learning.
We're getting the name out there and people are picking up the sport, or discipline I should say.

Parkour is more about training for emergency situations where you've got to use just your body to move from one point to another.
If you need to overcome obstacles you've trained for that, so be it climbing or running or jumping or balancing.
Hopefully you've trained movements that you can just use instinctively.

I've got inspiring people all around me like Florian and Christophe coming round from all over the world to train with us, so that's cool.
And David Belle and dudes like that who are pretty inspiring to watch and listen to.

Matthew Campbell (Chippa): My name's Chippa, been doing parkour for eight years now.
Also one of the people that founded and started the Australian Parkour Association.

The reason for that was when I first started, me and a few of the other guys found ourselves the ones that were always organizing things, the ones that were always being asked where are we going next.
So we were given the responsibility whether we liked it or not.
But then when it came time for us to say don't do that or we've got to move on, people wouldn't listen to us.

Also a kid hurt himself at one stage.
I wasn't actually there, had nothing to do with it, but a friend of the family told the family they should try and sue me and a couple of the other guys.
So we started to think well we need to take control of this situation.

So that's sort of how the idea of the association came about in that teaching the instructors, that's where I put my main focus is trying to help those guys because I feel like they're the guys that are really want to do parkour, like they're trying to do everything, they're trying to be at a high level physically but they're also trying to get out there and help other people.

Christophe Picot: At some point of practicing you just realize that parkour is much more than just a sport.
You give your heart and your soul to it and the way you look at things and the way you look at your environment has changed forever.

I like to think parkour as a will of expressing and doing something with your body and with human potential.
For me all the other sports and extreme sports like climbing, diving, free running, dancing, breakdancing and all the others are linked together because it's all about doing great stuff, have great sensations and loving to move.
Parkour is only what you want it to be and only what you want to do with it.

Benjamin Parker: Parkour is about using the minimum input and energy to bring out the best out of you.
Doing hard physical training like parkour, really you know giving your blood and your sweat to your training, it teaches you hard work, it teaches you to never give up and at the same time it teaches you to move from one point to your goal, taking your time and however hard it is just go and do it.

It's about becoming a confident and strong person and that translates itself into the work that I do.
I work as a consultant, I run my own business although I'm very young.
And so parkour has really taught me life values to be able to do that.

Florian Dagoury: You know when we are kids our mom and dad were yelling at us like stop running out, stay calm, be close.
Well I felt this barrier pretty much all my life and when parkour came out straight away I thought wow hang on a sec, this is exactly what I was waiting for.
Something which tells me go, let it go.

My parkour dream will be that one day parkour could change things, like set a move forever.
You know like what Michael Jackson did with his moonwalk or Elvis Presley when he danced.
This is what I wish the most for parkour, to make an impression into the world that will last forever through moves which inspire people to believe and achieve something further.

I think for many people they focus too much on what they want to do or where they want to go instead of how good it will be to do this or to get there.
I think life is better as a journey than as a destination.

So sentimental, not sentimental, no romantic, not disgusting yet.
Down and lonely, when with the fortunate only.
I've been looking for something else to let, to let, to let, chocolate, to let, let's go.

Slowly discouraged, distant mother interest on you baby, weakening in this love.
Fortunate only, that's where the fortunate only.
No I gotta be someone else these days, it comes, it comes, it comes, it comes and goes.

Lisztomania, think less but see it grow.
Like a riot, like a riot, oh.
Not easily offended, not hard to let it go.
From a mess to the masses.

Lisztomania, think less but see it grow.
Like a riot, like a riot, oh.
Not easily offended, not hard to let it go.
From a mess to the masses.

Follow me, sky's been still, discuss, discourage on this precious weekend in this love.
Fortunate only, well sentimental only.
Now that you're lonely, to let, to let, to let, chocolate, to let, let's go.

Slowly discouraged, we'll burn the pictures instead.
When it's all over we can barely discuss for a moment at all.
Not with the fortunate only, gotta be someone else these days, it comes, it comes, it comes, it comes and goes.

Lisztomania, think less but see it grow.
Like a riot, like a riot, oh.
Not easily offended, not hard to let it go.
From a mess to the masses.

Lisztomania, think less but see it grow.
Like a riot, like a riot, oh.
Not easily offended, not hard to let it go.
From a mess to the masses.

Sam: I'm an apple!

Lisztomania, think less but see it grow.
Like a riot, like a riot, oh.
Not easily offended, not hard to let it go.
From a mess to the masses.

Lisztomania, think less but see it grow.
Like a riot, like a riot, oh.
Not easily offended, not hard to let it go.
From a mess to the masses.

Christophe: Do I look like a Pole?
Sam: No, you look like from Mexico or something.

Sam: I live on the top of Apple Lane!
Florian: Oh really? Yeah, me too when I was young, but then I moved to Apple South.

Sam: The apple...

Florian: Yeah, that was good.

Florian: We named this video We Are Legends for two reasons.
What was the reason?
The first reason is the tears.

The wide open eyes of all the guys who watch us doing parkour.
You can tell they're a bit surprised because they haven't seen much of this before, but they're also pleased.
Pleased because...
Yeah, of course.

You can tell they're a bit surprised.
And the potential...
Successful people understand that, they know, they have...

We show them that the potential of moving is much further than they used to think.
The second reason please?

Christophe: I believe that every single activity can change the way you are and the way you act.
Parkour can make you more respectful and peaceful.
Peaceful because we spend a lot of time with our environment and we learn how to appreciate it.
And respectful because parkour community is huge and we meet a lot of people and we learn from each other and that's how we create our best memories.

Florian: Yeah!
Christophe: Yeah!
Florian: Yeah!
Christophe: Not bad!
Florian: Yeah!